Wiardgroup

--- In wiardgroup@y..., "John Loffink" <jloffink@a...> wrote:
> Just to play devil's advocate here, Emu, Wavemakers, 
Polyfusion, EML,
> PPG all used 1/4" jacks.  I also don't consider the Roland 700 
to be all
> that rare. The most common semi-modulars of all, the Korg 
MS-10 and
> MS-20, used 1/4" jacks.  There was not a preponderance of 
1/8" systems.
> It was closer to a 50/50 split between 1/4" and 1/8", with maybe 
5%
> banana jacks.  I would hardly consider 1/4" jacks to be a 
"non-standard"
> connector, or 1/8" the defacto standard.

OK, I forgot about those ;^) That's what I get for typing at 3 AM and 
making broad statements about "standards".

I guess the point I was trying to make was, as of the knowledge I 
had in 1996, I was under the impression that there were 
numerically more instruments/modules in the field with 1/8" 
jacks. So it would be in the customers best interest to have 1/8" 
connectors on the Wiard.

I actually try to collect numbers on these instruments. But it is all 
hearsay, and I can't claim any accuracy

Paul Schrieber told me he heard there were 6500 Moog 
modules produced (hope I'm not mis-quoting you Paul).

A very nice fellow from EML said in a letter that there were 400 
EML 200s and 1000 EML 101s made. The 101 wasn't 
completely patched out though.

"Vintage Synthesizers" quotes the production run of Polyfusion 
synthesizers at "about 150" systems (unknown number of 
modules).

I heard there were only 50 Roland System 700s made. But 1000 
of the 100 series and a pretty large run of 100m modules (more 
common in Europe and Asia?).

I've never heard any statistics on Wavemakers, PPG or EMU, but 
I think they were produced in relatively small quantities?

I am under the impression that the ARP 2600 was produced in 
pretty large volume, perhaps as many as 10,000 units? I've seen 
serial numbers as high as 28,000 but I don't think they are 
sequential?

Aries 300 production is anybodies guess.

Anyway, between the Rolands and the ARP 2600, it seemed the 
1/8" connector was the best choice to make you folks happy.

It turns out the real winner is Serge, with over 2500 panel/racks 
in the field, figuring an average of 6 modules per rack, that's like 
15,000+ modules shipped. If only Rex had gotten here sooner...

If anyone has any hearsay to add, please chime in. Electronic 
music is very much an oral history at this point.